I didn’t miss that point at all. Authors/Commenters are actually taking in 56% of the reward pool. The rest is divided between curators, witnesses, and interest.
By far, the largest single group of users and potential users is content consumers. Most people are not bloggers and don’t want to be. That is the demographic that would benefit most from curation rewards and would represent the exponential growth that everyone wants to see.
But what do we say to them? ”You don’t matter! Put your money in and give it to authors who need to get paid!”
If there are no witnesses, who would sign the blocks where authors put their content? Author rewards are a byproduct of actual investment. They aren’t needed in order for the blockchain to function or for speculators/investors to speculate/invest.
that is what i did not know. so technically steem does not need authors to exist and witnesses and investors will still earn steem?
no problem with giving more to consumers/curators. but to curate/consume you need something to consume.
As a continual buyer of steem i'm not worried about the nothing to consume bit.